Verse 53

Ezekiel 16:53

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53 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will be restored to what they were before. You and your daughters will also be restored to what you were before.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/שַׁבְתִּי֙ אֶת שְׁבִ֣יתְ/הֶ֔ן אֶת שבית שְׁב֤וּת סְדֹם֙ וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֔י/הָ וְ/אֶת שבית שְׁב֥וּת שֹׁמְר֖וֹן וּ/בְנוֹתֶ֑י/הָ ו/שבית וּ/שְׁב֥וּת שְׁבִיתַ֖יִ/ךְ בְּ/תוֹכָֽ/הְנָה

English Translation

And I will return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and its daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and its daughters, and the captivity of your captivity in their midst.

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Chapter 16 Context

1 Another message from the Lord came to me, saying, Focus ↗

2 “Son of man, challenge Jerusalem over her disgusting practices. Focus ↗

3 Tell Jerusalem that this is what the Lord God (Elohim) says to her: You really are a Canaanite, both... Focus ↗

4 On the day you were born your cord was not cut, and you weren't washed to clean you up, you weren't... Focus ↗

5 No one looked on you with love to do anything like this for you; no one showed any kind of care for... Focus ↗

6 But I passed by and saw you kicking, covered in your own blood. As you were lying there in your bloo... Focus ↗

7 I helped you to grow like a plant in the field. You grew up into a beautiful young woman. Your breas... Focus ↗

8 When I passed by again, I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for lovemaking. So I spread... Focus ↗

9 Then I washed you with water, cleaned off your blood, and anointed you with oil. Focus ↗

10 I put a beautifully embroidered dress on you and gave you fine leather sandals. I clothed you in fin... Focus ↗

11 I gave you jewelry—I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck. Focus ↗

12 I put a ring in your nose and earrings on your ears, and placed a beautiful crown on your head. Focus ↗

13 You wore gold and silver jewelry, and your clothes were made of the finest linen, expensive fabric,... Focus ↗

14 You were famous around the world because of your beauty, for I used my majestic power to make you so... Focus ↗

15 You were so proud of your beauty that you were unfaithful to me. You thought that because you were s... Focus ↗

16 You made yourself colorful pagan shrines out of the clothes I'd given you, and there you acted as a... Focus ↗

17 You used your embroidered clothes to dress them, and you placed before them my olive oil and incense... Focus ↗

18 You presented the food I had given you as an offering for them to accept —bread made from the best f... Focus ↗

19 You sacrificed your sons and daughters—the children you had for me—offering them as food for idols t... Focus ↗

20 You slaughtered my children, sacrificing them to idols. Focus ↗

21 While you were busy with all your disgusting practices and your prostitution, you forgot about the t... Focus ↗

22 Disaster is coming! Disaster is coming on you, declares the Lord God (Elohim). As well as all the ot... Focus ↗

23 you built yourself a pagan shrine, a high place of idol worship on every public square in the city. Focus ↗

24 You made yourselves high places of idol worship at the top of every street; you degraded yourself, o... Focus ↗

25 You gave yourself as a prostitute to your Egyptian neighbors with their large sexual organs, making... Focus ↗

26 So I acted to reduce my blessings to you. I let your enemies the Philistines do what they wanted to... Focus ↗

27 Because you weren't satisfied you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians. But even then you weren't... Focus ↗

28 So you took your promiscuous behavior to Babylonia, the country of merchants, but even then you were... Focus ↗

29 You're really sick-minded to do all this, acting like a prostitute with no shame, declares the Lord... Focus ↗

30 Actually you weren't even a normal prostitute when you built yourselves pagan shrines at the top of... Focus ↗

31 You're a wife that loves adultery! You sleep with strangers instead of your husband! Focus ↗

32 Normally all prostitutes are paid, but you were the one giving gifts to all your lovers. You even br... Focus ↗

33 So you're the opposite of other prostitutes. No one comes to you asking for sex, and you pay the pro... Focus ↗

34 So, you prostitute, listen to the message from the Lord! Focus ↗

35 This is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: Because you were so crazy with desire you stripped yourself... Focus ↗

36 I'm going to bring together all the lovers you went to bed with, whether you loved them or hated the... Focus ↗

37 I will impose on you the punishment for women who commit adultery and those who murder; you will be... Focus ↗

38 Then I will hand you over to your lovers, and they will demolish your pagan shrines and destroy your... Focus ↗

39 They will come with a mob to attack you. They will stone you and chop you into pieces with their swo... Focus ↗

40 They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women watch. I will stop your prostitution... Focus ↗

41 Then I will finish being jealous and furious with you. I will calm down and won't be angry any more. Focus ↗

42 Since you didn't remember how I looked after you when you were young, but made me angry with all the... Focus ↗

43 Everyone who likes to use proverbs will quote this one about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ Focus ↗

44 You are the daughter of your mother who detested her husband and children. You are just like her! Yo... Focus ↗

45 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was So... Focus ↗

46 You didn't just follow their ways and do the same disgusting things they did, you very quickly becam... Focus ↗

47 As I live, declares the Lord God (Elohim), your sister Sodom and her daughters didn't ever do what y... Focus ↗

48 The sins of your sister Sodom were these: She and her daughters were proud, greedy, and lazy. They d... Focus ↗

49 They became arrogant and did disgusting things in my presence. So I got rid of them when I saw this. Focus ↗

50 Samaria didn't sin half as badly as you did. You have done far more disgusting things than they did.... Focus ↗

51 Now you're going to have to put up with your shame, since by your disgraceful sins you made them see... Focus ↗

52 Even so I'm going to bring Sodom and her daughters back from exile, and Samaria and her daughters to... Focus ↗

53 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will be restored to what they...

54 Didn't you mock your sister Sodom when you were feeling proud, Focus ↗

55 before you were shown to be so wicked yourselves? Of course now you are mocked by the Edomites and t... Focus ↗

56 You will have to experience the consequences of your immorality and your disgusting practices, decla... Focus ↗

57 This is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: I'm going to punish you according to your sins, because you... Focus ↗

58 But I won't forget the agreement I made with you when you were young, and I will make an everlasting... Focus ↗

59 Then you will remember the way you are meant to live and be ashamed when you meet your older and you... Focus ↗

60 This is how I will endorse my agreement with you, and you will know that I am the Lord, Focus ↗

61 so that you will remember and be ashamed, and won't ever defend your disgraceful behavior when I for... Focus ↗

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Book: Ezekiel
Chapter: Chapter 16 (61 verses)
Version: Free Bible Version

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